25.11.2024

TaxTech Weekly: Klardaten comes out of stealth with AI-powered DATEV API

🇩🇪 TaxTech of the Week: Klardaten

Berlin-based Klardaten, a newly founded TaxTech, aims to enable tax professionals to automate their processes through a modern API. Their big goal is to connect DATEV to the future, enabling AI-driven analysis and intelligent automation. This could lead to the following future functionalities through the Klardaten API:

Automated data quality agent
API-powered data processing
Tax co-pilot
Consultation support
Centralized data insights

In addition to their core API product, Klardaten also supports an interface for creating ZUGFeRD compliant e-invoices and converting existing PDF invoices to e-invoices. This functionality can be tested separately with their free tool: InvoicePony.

With its services, Klardaten brings the on-premises API of DATEVconnect to the cloud with the recently added support for DATEVasp in addition to PARTNERasp - two DATEV cloud hosting models where hosting is provided either directly by DATEV or by an IT partner.

Together with the aforementioned support for DATEVconnect, Klardaten enables a broad customer base to benefit from easy and deep access to any DATEV desktop system via the cloud, while providing a secure, GDPR-compliant service and real-time notification of data changes.

Bootstrapped and profitable

With customers like milia.io and others, Klardaten has already secured its first paying users. This model seems to be working as Klardaten is bootstrapped with no outside investors and is already proving to be a profitable operation.

Of course, to make this work, especially in the complex DATEV world, you need an experienced team. But with former Kontist by Ageras (🇩🇪) and Shine (🇫🇷) engineers Sylvain Boulade, Paweł Janik and Johannes Pfeiffer, that shouldn't be a problem.

A quick side note: Both Kontist and Shine have been acquired by Copenhagen-based Ageras, which is trying to build a European one-stop-shop for small and medium-sized businesses through a buy-and-build approach, with its core markets being Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and France.

A competitive landscape?

However, Klardaten is playing a different game and seems to have only limited, albeit dominant, competition with the currently leading solution Cloud Gateway for DATEVconnect from Austria, which offers similar services in both Austria and Germany.

While Klardaten is now focused on connecting to any DATEV data you could wish for, it is the future analysis of this data where the Klardaten API will really become a potential game changer. And if this all comes to pass, Germany may not be the only AI playing field for them.

To learn more or get in touch, visit their website or look them up on LinkedIn.